@bigOnion - echoing after Anton, awesome response. Even though it is my first time competing and I haven't really seen what others do, I already implemented some of the stuff you mentioned in your post - i've got all the skeleton code reading files and outputting results based on couple of flags. That saves me a minute or two compared to copy/paste :). I guess real skill as you and Paul pointed out comes from hours and hours of practice.
I've looked at your Python code but my Python is very basic so I can only take the the overall logic out of it, not the nitty-gritty bit of individually crafted statements. Even if I could, I probably wouldn't as those match your style of thinking, not mine. I decided to enter this competition to have an extra incentive to learn Scala but right before the start of the context I realised that most of the tasks require imperative coding so I failed back to what I am more comfortable with at the moment - C#. Next year this will surely be Scala & C# of time permits :) @Carlos - thanks for the link, I'll explore it further Neugomonney -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/49a7a6a4-52c1-438c-9e00-3eedc7d6c58d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
